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Meditation: The Silence That's Listening (from retreat)
FromTara Brach
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Length:
27 minutes
Released:
Jun 22, 2018
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Podcast episode
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Meditation: The Silence That's Listening (from retreat) - Listening to sounds is a powerful way to quiet the thinking mind and connect with the natural openness of awareness. In this guided meditation, we begin by opening to sound and then listening to and feeling the whole changing flow of life - allowing whatever is here to be just as it is. In the foreground, we notice the dance of sensations, thoughts, emotions…rising up and falling away. And in the background, a wakeful, receptive presence - the silence that is listening. When we let go of all doing and relax back into this alert stillness, we sense our true nature…our home. In words from the Tibetan tradition: “Utterly awake, senses wide open. Utterly open, non-fixating, allowing awareness.” (Morning meditation from the 2018 Spring IMCW 7-Day Silent Retreat)
Released:
Jun 22, 2018
Format:
Podcast episode
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